Sebastian Prödl

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Sebastian Prödl
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Sebastian Prödl (2015)
Personnel
birthday June 21, 1987
place of birth Graz ,  Austria
size 194 cm
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
1993-1997 SV Kirchberg
1997-2002 SV Feldbach
2002-2005 SK Sturm Graz
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2006 SK Sturm Graz II at least 12 0(1)
2006-2008 SK Sturm Graz 43 0(4)
2008-2015 Werder Bremen 149 (10)
2015-2020 Watford FC 77 0(3)
2020– Udinese Calcio 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2006 Austria U19 5 0(0)
2007 Austria U20 8 0(1)
2007– Austria 73 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.
As of October 5, 2019

2 As of October 16, 2018

Sebastian Prödl (2014)

Sebastian Prödl (born June 21, 1987 in Graz ) is an Austrian football player .

Career

societies

Sebastian Prödl played for SV Kirchberg and SV Feldbach in his youth and moved to SK Sturm Graz in 2002 . He made his debut for Sturm in the Austrian Bundesliga on December 9, 2006 in the 0-1 away defeat against SV Mattersburg . Five months later, on May 9, 2007, he scored his first Bundesliga goal for Sturm Graz. The headed goal to 1-0 against SCR Altach also meant victory for his team. Prödl became an integral part of the central defense of Sturm Graz in the 2007/08 season and played a part in qualifying for the UI Cup .

For the 2008/09 season he moved to Germany to Werder Bremen . He signed a contract until June 30, 2012. On August 9, Prödl made his competitive debut in the Werder jersey at the game Eintracht Nordhorn against Werder Bremen. He was in the starting line-up for this first round DFB Cup game. The game ended with a 9-3 win for Bremen. On August 16, he made his Bundesliga debut at the away game in Bielefeld . In the last game of the first half of 2008 against VfL Wolfsburg , the Austrian injured his ankle , which is why he missed the winter preparation and training camp in Belek .

On March 18, 2009, he scored his first competitive goal for Werder in the round of 16 of the UEFA Cup . In the second leg against AS Saint-Étienne he scored the 1-0 opening goal at 2-2. Prödl reached the final with Werder in the further course of the competition, which they lost, however, 1: 2 nV against the Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk . In the Bundesliga he made 22 appearances by the end of the season. After the season he won the 2008/09 DFB Cup with Werder Bremen , playing the full time in the final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen . On 21 January 2012, he retired at the game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern a maxillary and broken nose and a concussion when Dorge Kouemaha him with a bicycle kick hit his foot in the face of what a two-month break, moved to it. On March 11, 2012, he made his comeback and scored with a head to the meanwhile 2-0 against Hannover 96.

On May 2, 2012, Prödl extended his contract, which was running out at the end of the season, to June 30, 2015.

After his contract expired, Prödl moved to the Premier League for Watford FC for the 2015/16 season , which provided him with a contract until June 30, 2020. He made his debut on August 8, 2015 (1st matchday) in a 2-2 draw in the away game against FC Everton from the start. In his first three seasons Prödl was still a member of the team, but in the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons he only played one league assignment. In January 2020, his contract with Watford was terminated. He then moved to Udinese Calcio in Italy in February 2020 , where he received a contract that ran until June 2021.

National team

His first appearance for the senior national team had Prödl on May 30, 2007 in a friendly against Scotland .

Between June and July 2007 he took part as the captain of the Austrian U-20 national team at the 2007 Junior World Cup in Canada , where they finished fourth. Due to his performance in Canada, he was selected by La Gazzetta dello Sport in the tournament's All-Star Team . He scored one goal and was on the field in all eight games for the full playing time.

Prödl took part in the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland , where he was used in two games. He played through the games against the selection of Croatia and Poland . In the game against Poland he was brought down by Mariusz Lewandowski in the penalty area. Ivica Vastić converted the due penalty shortly before the end of the game to 1: 1. Since Prödl saw the yellow card in both games, he was suspended in the third group game against Germany .

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in Austria's squad. In the second game against Portugal, which ended 0-0, he was on the field once for the full playing time. In the decisive game against Iceland he made his second appearance, but was substituted at half-time when the score was 0: 1. With one point from the group games, the team was bottom of the table and eliminated.

successes

Trivia

In the run-up to SV Werder Bremen's away game at FC Bayern Munich in the 2014/15 season , Sebastian Prödl said:

"Munich is like a visit to the dentist. Everyone has to go there. Can be quite painful. But it can also end lightly."

The quote was awarded the German Football Culture Prize 2015 as football slogan of the year .

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Prödl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Karper: Prödl rewarded himself with the goal . ( Memento from March 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Laola1.at , March 19, 2009.
  2. ↑ Thomas Schulz: Prödl's injury shocks Werder . Nordwest-Zeitung , January 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ Marin injured - Hanover remains without a win in Bremen . kicker , March 11, 2012.
  4. ↑ Prödl extends SV Werder until 2015 . ( Memento from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Communication from SV Werder Bremen, May 2, 2012.
  5. ↑ OFFICIAL: Sebastian Prodl Signs , Watford FC announcement, June 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ Official: Prödl Departs watfordfc.com, on January 31, 2020, accessed on January 31, 2020
  7. ↑ Prödl è un giocatore bianconero udinese.it, on February 4, 2020, accessed on February 4, 2020
  8. ↑ Honor for Prödl: "Munich is like visiting a dentist ..." kicker.de , accessed on August 15, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Prödl, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria